Pedro Bronz

A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.

A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.

Treinta y cinco años después del primer encuentro que ha cambiado la vida de ambos, el veterano guitarrero argentino Lucio Yanel y su prodigioso discípulo Yamandu Costa se reencuentran en un viaje que reconstruye el camino recorrido por Yanel hacia tierras brasileñas en los años ochenta. Solos en la ruta con sus guitarras y memorias, cruzan la frontera del sur de Brasil hasta llegar a Corrientes - ciudad natal de Lucio Yanel – enfrentando las transformaciones generadas por el inexorable paso del tiempo.

Treinta y cinco años después del primer encuentro que ha cambiado la vida de ambos, el veterano guitarrero argentino Lucio Yanel y su prodigioso discípulo Yamandu Costa se reencuentran en un viaje que reconstruye el camino recorrido por Yanel hacia tierras brasileñas en los años ochenta. Solos en la ruta con sus guitarras y memorias, cruzan la frontera del sur de Brasil hasta llegar a Corrientes - ciudad natal de Lucio Yanel – enfrentando las transformaciones generadas por el inexorable paso del tiempo.

Faced with the advancement of eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous community stand as resistance and reveal the impact of monoculture on the environment, in contrast to traditional ways of life. The enemy can also be green.

Después de ser liberado de la prisión, el Dr. Nise da Silveira está de vuelta en el trabajo en un hospital psiquiátrico en las afueras de Río de Janeirom donde ella se niega a emplear la nueva y violenta de electroshock en el tratamiento de los esquizofrénicos. Ridiculizado por los médicos, se ve obligada a asumir el Sector abandonada de terapia ocupacional, donde comenzaría una revolución a través de pinturas, los animales y el amor.

Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movies, diary and popular songs excerpts, the documentary reassesses the legacy of the dictatorial period of Getúlio Vargas (1937-1945). Through the comparison and analysis of these heterogeneous records, produced for different purposes, from political propaganda to family celebration, the film explores the several layers of the political web of the Estado Novo, exposing its external inspirational sources, functionality and contradictions.

Fifteen years after their split, a man and woman reconnect during a chance encounter and reconsider their new loves and lives.

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Player, coach, journalist and polemicist, João Saldanha (1917-1990) has always been a good fighter. The bravery he displayed on the field, in the short period he was a player, led him to accept the post of coach of the same team, Botafogo. He was also one of the most feared and controversial sports commentators of his time.

Takes the viewer into a heated contest for a unique prize. In one corner, the undisputed champion: Music; in the other: the musicians. Ricardo, Catherine, Byron, Rodrigo and Rodney - all talented young musicians - vie for a place in a symphony orchestra in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The film reveals the conflict, passion and discipline that the artistic impulse demands.

Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the death of a young Brazilian. After a period in prison, Marshall goes to Brazil, deadly ill and in a desperate search in order to purge his guilt. In his quest, he is guided by Bia, a young prostitute.

Herbert Up Close is the life and music of Herbert Vianna, front man of the Paralamas do Sucesso, "the most successful band in Brazillian rock", according to the Billboard magazine. In 2001, Herbert had his career interrupted by an airplane accident that killed his wife and left him disabled. Sitting on a wheelchair, Herbert watches his past on a television, a life of fighting, persistence and achievements shown by close and caring vision from directors Roberto Berliner and Pedro Bronz. The film tells the inside story of one of the most talented musicians in Latin American pop music.

In the streets of Rio de Janeiro, survival is the name of the game where the protagonist is an imported 'hot' car. People, from all social levels, will do anything in order to possess it, if only for a few minutes.

Documentary about the frustrated insurrection of 1935 that resulted in the consolidation of the absolutist government of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil (1930-1945).